What does CRN mean in UNCLASSIFIED

Cloud Resource Names (CRNs) are unique identifiers for Google Cloud resources, such as projects, compute instances, and storage buckets. They provide a consistent and unambiguous way to identify resources across all Google Cloud services.

A CRN consists of the following parts:

• Organization or folder name
• Project name
• Collection type (e.g., "compute")
• Resource type (e.g., "instances")
• Resource ID

The format of a CRN is:

projects/{project-name}/locations/{location}/collections/{collection-type}/{resource-type}/{resource-id}

For example, the CRN for a compute instance named "example-instance" in the "us-central1" region of the "my-project" project would be:

projects/my-project/locations/us-central1/collections/compute.googleapis.com/instances/example-instance

CRNs are used to:

• Identify resources in Google Cloud APIs and SDKs
• Authorize access to resources
• Track resources and their usage
• Manage resources in a consistent way across all Google Cloud services

You can find the CRN for a resource in the following ways:

• Google Cloud Console: Go to the resource's details page and look for the "Resource ID" field.
• gcloud command line: Use the gcloud command to retrieve the resource's CRN. For example:

  gcloud compute instances describe example-instance --format json | jq .name

• API: Use the appropriate API method to retrieve the resource's CRN. For example, the Compute Engine API has a get method that returns the CRN of a compute instance.